Category: 1770-1779

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1770-1779

1770-1779, 18th century, decade overview

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1787 – Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Madame Adélaïde

1770-1779, 18th century, artwork analysis

A complex portrait of Louis XV’s daughter Marie-Adélaïde clinging to the old regime of France through fashion and decor just before the revolution.

1770-96 – Agostino Brunias, Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape

1770-1779, 1780-1789, 1790-1799, 18th century, artwork analysis, BIPOC

In a late 18th-century painting organized by skin tone, Agostino Brunias has depicted a range of colonial Dominican fashions from the wealthy elite to the poorest people whom they enslaved.

1778 – Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott

1770-1779, 18th century, artwork analysis

This portrait of Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?-1823) by English portraitist Thomas Gainsborough was commissioned by Mrs. Elliott’s lover, the Earl of Cholmondeley. First exhibited at Royal Academy, London in 1778, the composition and treatment are reminiscent of Van Dyck.

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